Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

